The Cultural Affairs Committee is proud to present to you Silliman Performs. For this year’s edition of the annual musical revue featuring the best performing talents of Silliman University, we pay tribute to the music of the stage and film. Since the 19th century, Broadway musicals have been an integral part of the American cultural life. Trips to New York would not be complete if one did not see the bright lights of Broadway, or watch and experience stories come alive on stage, or suspend disbelief just to accept for a brief moment that life could happen in between musical numbers. The whole world has embraced Broadway, but a question must be asked: why do we, Filipinos, living in a country geographically removed from Broadway, have also fallen head over heels in love with musicals, be it on stage or films? Silliman Performs Broadway attempts to answer this question.
Silliman Performs Broadway opens on 22 August 2014, Friday at 8 PM, at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium.
The show features excerpts from The Sound of Music, Porgy and Bess, West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, La Cage Aux Folles, Chicago, The King and I, Showboat, Wicked, Dreamgirls, Rent, The Fantasticks, Les Miserables, and Carousel.
Performers include Cheryl Lyn Sitoy-Antonio, Katrina Tiongson Saga, Dessa Quesada-Palm, Caleb Santos, Warlito Caturay Jr., the Orkestra sin Arco, Yeshhua Quizo, Onna Rhea Quizo, Manuel Jarabe Jr., Earnest Hope Tinambacan, Louise Remata-Villanueva, Ian Gue, Ian Rosales Casocot, Manolito Saldivar, Maria Elcon Cabasag, Rigel Suarez, the SU Campus Choristers, and Speech & Theatre students of the College of Performing & Visual Arts.
Leo Mamicpic directs, with musical direction by Mark Ian Caballes.
This is a special Founders Day presentation of the Cultural Affairs Committee. Tickets are available at P200, P300, and P500 at the CAC office at COPVA Building II, and at the Luce lobby before the show begins. For ticket reservations and other inquiries, call (035) 422-4365 or 0917-513-3312.
